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Jesus dude, it’s not speculation. Chill the hell out. spec·u·la·tion /ˌspekyəˈlāSH(ə)n/ 1. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence. "there has been widespread speculation that he plans to quit" There was however a joke. joke /jōk/ 1. a thing that someone says to cause...

Purposeful understatement IMO. That’s definitely a crash. I don’t care who you’re talking to. Can joke about it because they’re all mostly good.

When did Baghdad bob start working for the Navy? Looking at the pictures that’s a crash. . .

Just begs the question for me: why the fuck don’t gate guards hit the big fucking red button for the barriers? Reminds me when I got launched on a SAR in the middle of the Atlantic. Of course, it was an absolutely shit day for ceiling and vis. The aft lookout didn’t bother to toss a candle...

First part is completely false, you can dump gas. I don't think there is a 5k minimum altitude over bad guy territory to lighten the aircraft. The second part about the hand selection. Agreed, and this is where specific training comes in. When you use all of your flight hours with a narrow...

The Navy helo squadrons doing a CSAR would be akin to an E/A-18 conducting air-to-air. They probably train to it, I'm assuming, but the training isn't much, nor are they likely very good.

Horrible analogy. They're playing the same sport, it's more like the Red Sox are better at baseball than the Shuckers. They have the same equipment, but the Red Sox guys know how to use it better. I'm not going to get into the specifics of the mishap, I'll just say it was a power...

Because it’s true. The marines came in and crashed a V-22 on a casevac mission creating more injuries because of poor airmanship. Think that was in Yemen? Training matters. The reason that the navy doesn’t do csar well is because the guy in the right seat of lead is playing five different roles...

The problem was the people making the requirements. They’re often so far removed from the problem that they don’t know what the heck they’re doing. Take a Helo guy in the navy that hasn’t done anything overland and have him make the requirements. That’s how you end up with an aircraft that has...

If you owe the bank $100 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $1,000,000,000,000,000 they have a problem. We won’t be going to a physical war with China anytime in my life.

I’ll take over budget unnecessarily complicated military projects for $1000 Alex.

don’t try to blame malice that which can be explained by incompetence when it comes to the government. Something I truly believe.

I’m sure there are numbered accounts that have increased balance sheets to explain that. . .

What you’re missing is that while they’re his toys, he can’t really take them anywhere. Familiar with ITAR?

Fist time was my initial natops sim check in the 60 rag. Had an engine fire with immediate ditch scenario. I caught the guy grabbing the wrong handle and stopped him before pulling it. Then twice in my aqp training a guy touched the wrong lever. Neither time did the wrong engine get shut off...

I have had multiple occasions in multiple sims across different airframes where my sim partner attempted to shut down the wrong engine. Scary shit to me, and honestly makes me think that odds are close to 50/50 that someone doesn’t do something stupid in an actual emergency.

Going for the zero defect retiree now? Where do you draw the line? Why aren’t the regular criminal consequences enough for you? Does this negate the 20+ years of honorable service that he completed? my opinion is one is not linked to the other. He’s going to face consequences in criminal...

They said the same thing about the two piece flight suits and 84/85. . .

Apparently some in the employee group didn’t think so. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/11/27/pilot-shortage-prompts-rare-flight-cancellations-at-delta-over-thanksgiving-break.html

Ironing your shirt? I do that once before the trip. Seems good enough for four days for me. . . Haven’t had to break out the spare yet either. Of course, today will be the day because I left it in my car. . .

One thing I wish airliners had were foot talk switches. For the old people here think of the old style high beams switch on the floor. The helicopter had two of them. One was for ics, the other was for radio. I could talk in/out without the use of my hands. It seems like such an easy thing, yet...

Stab definitely has a better opportunity to try and kill you than save you from anything other than an annoying perspective looking out the window.

Look at your previous video. It’s not hard to imagine an ego going from one to the other.

Quick question. Is are people still PCSing?

I’d be interested to know what this guys actual IMC time was. You can be an experienced CFII and have crap for actual imc time. The blinders don’t truly replicate the IMC environment. I also know plenty of guys with special instrument cards in the navy that had 99% of their “instrument” time on...

I’ll never forget my first LPO mentioning how many wives he paid the bar fine for in the PI now working at the exchange. This was circa ‘98 and he’d been in with a beard at some point. I didn’t know what a bar fine was initially.

Second this.

It’ll be the same. Assuming you ignore air resistance.

Curious, what gmt do you have, have you had it appraised recently?

As a former 85 guy I know a lot of people who were running for the hills. The navy destroyed that squadron back in ‘15 and it never really recovered. I’ve been gone for a year and a half, and I’m glad I retired rather than trying to go FTS HSC. The career track just isn’t good in that...

I’m mainly saying that the S model is the biggest waste of money for an operational helicopter the military has purchased base on mission capability and actual cost.

Whoever sourced the S has no clue what they were actually doing. They over paid for a SAR bird and a partly capable vertrep bird, and completely dropped the asw mission in order to do it.

He has been punished. The original punishment doesn’t fit the crime he was convicted of in my opinion. The chief in question is caught in the middle of political bs outside of his control at this point. I don’t have an issue with him using whatever means necessary to defend his position as he’s...

Agreed, the rules are there. There has been punishment, six months of confinement for a poorly made decision seems a bit excessive for a photo. I think the pre trial confinement was excessive to begin with as well. The guy wasn’t a flight hazard or a danger to society imo, which is the general...

I should have quoted, but I’m lazy and on my iPad. Referring to a couple posts a few pages back. Went and read through and didn’t go back to quote. Yeah, the difference is one corpse versus a snuff video of many. Simply because one is more intimate doesn’t change that more died in the latter...

That was my point. Just took to the last sentence to get to it.

Seems to me a lot of people are upset about pictures with a dead guy. How many aviators have happily shown declassified video from a strike they did killing people on the battlefield? The difference being that guy had a lot more skin in the fight. The only peril pilots see are aircraft...

Heard it was a bad day to quit sniffing glue.

You're legitimately advocating for a skill that no one, NO ONE, will use post training command. That shit is gone, let it go.

Airlines don’t fly with paper. They have a lot more skin in the game than the military does. Just look at what’s going on with the max. There isn’t a reason to be flying with paper anymore. In my opinion paper charts distract from your first requirement of aviating. Two iPads and a battery...

I know -85 gave several helicopters to them in 17/18. The last of their hotels went to E city for refitting.

Aging helicopters? The 65s yeah, my understanding was they’re updating every 60 to a -T.

Think about every memory item and what will happen if it’s not done immediately. Fire? Have time to get a checklist. Engine air restart? Time for a checklist. Very few require true immediate action. The restart is just dumb. If you have a dual flameout you’re auto rotating.

What are guys leaving their first tour wrt flight hours these days at HSC? I left with about 900 and that included about 9 months of med down for a blown out neck, thanks to helicopters and our helmet.

Air Force Helo pilots actually execute a mission. Navy Helo pilots train to a mission they’ll never execute outside of SAR and pmc.

That would be huge!

One thing that is ever present in aviation regardless of what level you’re at. That is useless information that has nothing to do with the safe operation of the aircraft. So, list your least favorite bit of information here. Mine has to be specific thrust rating, shp or any other number that...

So many things can happen on a fast rope. I've seen a lot of calamitous ones, thankfully no one ever got hurt. My favorite was a MARSOC guy playing with the 2nd commando aussies , he was the last one out. Goes on the rope and gets about 2 feet down before he realizes he didn't untie...

Really? So you think anything in the ucmj should be able to be done at NJP? What about murder? If there is insufficient evidence should NJP for that be considered? What I’m saying is on the most serious of accusations the most stringent legal code should be applied. Not the whims of a...

NJP for a “sexual assault” would only be done in the case that they don’t have enough evidence to convict at a courts martial. One can reasonably assume at that point that there is a high chance that the “assault” didn’t happen. Ergo, any NJP for a sexual assault is likely a commander...